Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 December 1895 — Page 6

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13,1895.

GROVER says, "Let me shoot the ducks of the nation and I care not who makes her laws."

DON CAMERON has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-election to the Senate from Pennsylvania. If Quay would but imitate his example a great burden would be lifted from the shoulders of Pennsylvania.

THE Lafayette Call has introduced lineotype machines into its composing rooms. The Courier will do the same thing-. The South Bend Tribune has the matter under consideration. And thus the wheels of progress move.

CINCINNATI Commercial-Gazette: The papers not having been able to smoke Gen. Harrison out on the next convention question, are trying their hands as to his intentions on the matrimonial subject. Gen. Harrison does not smoke.

KENTUCKY has now a Republican ^Governor, the first in the history of :the Commonwealth. The inaugural ceremonies took place at Frankfort yesterday, and were participated in by the people of all parties. Congratulations to Governor Bradley.

THERE is absolutely no necessity for retiring any portion of our paper money, particularly the greenbacks. Let Congress provide sufficient revenue for the Treasury and diminish the drain of gold abroad by restoring the McKinley duties, and all will be well.

THE Gorman-Wilson tariff is a confessed failure. As a tariff for revenue only its only effect has been to create an annual deficiency of $50,000,000. It must be amended by the present Congress without delay, and the amendment will be in the direction of protection to American wool growers and

THE government has been living on borrowed money ever since this administration came in. The people are Jtired of bonds and interests. They want to pay as they go, and the question for this Congress to consider now is how to provide by means of a protective tariff the money wherewith to pay the government's expenses.

THE Argus-News is as blood thirsty against its political brother, Henry Watterson, as Harry Haywood is against his natural brother. But mention Henry's name to the Argus-News and at once it has an unconquerable desire to dig his brains out with a knife, tear out his heart, crush the two together, cut them to pieces, squeeze out the juice, make it into a pie, and thrust it down his throat.

MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE is well informed on the subject of the Turkish massacres of Christians in modern times, and writes to a Boston paper giving the figures collected by her husband and herself. During her own lifetime nearly 100,000 Christians have been murdered by the Turks. In 1822 a Turkish army killed 23,000 Greek Christians on the Island of Chios, and sold into slavery 47,000.

THE only law passed by the Democratic Congress, which could produce revenue, has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Democratic party will not be permitted to escape this responsibility. Tbe [question is not, 6hall we use more silver, but shall the American .market be opened to the world on a cheaper basis than to the American citizens themselves? Shall the workmen and tradesmen of foreign countries enjoy the privileges of a market made valuable by the higher ideals of life and intelligence of the American people, when they in no way contribute to the condition,pay no share of the taxes and in no way assist in sustaining the American Government? If the workmen of England and other countries had the same wants, the same pleasures in life as our workmen, there could be no need of protection to our industries. The American workman has made what at first was a luxury to-day a necessity, and he has been able to attain these luxuries through the American [principles of paying American wages for American labor. The factory and the farm are the two great producers of national wealth. When you stop the music of the spindle and the roar of tbe factory you leave the plough to rust in the far3i yard.

CARRIER PIGEONS.

In 1803 an expedition was fitted out in Norway by Captain Nansen for a voyage of discovery and exploration in the Arctic regions. On June 21, of that year, the Fram left Varanger Fiord, at Christiana, and bade adieu to Europe. On August 2 she reached Yugorski Strait, paused for a brief space that letters might be sent home, and then plunged into the Black Seas oil the North and vanished from human vision and from human reach. From that day to this she has not been seen nor heard from, until last Saturday the news came that Mrs. Nansen, at her home in Christiana, had received by carrier pigeon a message from her husband, stating that his expedition was doing well. That was all. The pigeon was one of a coopful that was put aboard the Fram when she started two and a half years ago. This is certainly a strange story and far transcends the utmost fancyings of poet and romancer. The New York Tribune thus comments on this strange, mysterious and inexplicable story:

From out the silence and darkness of those two unknown years, a vital messenger comes. A carrier pigeon, a Huffy handful of feathers and affection, is released from the cage in which it has all this time been imprisoned in an ice-bound ship. The tiny missive is fastened to it, and it is tossed gently into the Arctic air. Never before was any messenger sent forth on such an errand nor never since the remote progenitor of this same bird flew forth from the window of the Ark. For a thousand mile?, on every side is utter desolation. The only sign of life in all the world is on the Fram. But the tiny herald plunges unhesitatingly into that dreadful realm, heading southward as truly as the needle points to its poie. Over a thousand miles of drifting glaciers and snow-slirouded islands it makes its way over another thousand miles of stormy sea and frozen plains and forest wilderness, and finally flutters to its mistress's window and delivers its messaage to her eager hand. If this be true—we must say "if," for the tale seems too marvelous for credence until confirmed in the amplest manner—it is unsurpassed in the storybook of the world's wonders. That so slight a creature should have the yital force, the physicial endurance, for such a task, is almost beyond comprehension. That it should have the instinct, or inspiration, or whatever we may call it, to lead it over untracked wastes straight to its home, after thirty months of bewildering imprisonment, is a mystery no philosopher can venture to explain. Wonderful as will be the tales the master of the Fram will tell on his homecoming, not one of them will be more wonderful or more heroic than the silent story of his winged messenger.

THE paramount issue of the day is not the question, "Must the greenback go?" Shall a surplus replace a deficiency in the treasury? Shall the balance of trade be in our favor instead of against us? Shall we thereby be able to maintain the gold reserve and keep our silver and papei at a par with g61d without having to increase the national debt? The people know that it will not profit them to exchange a $500,000,000 debt on which thev pay no interest for a debt on which they will have to pay interest. The trouble is our revenue laws do not protect our industries sufficiently. We are buying abroad what we should produce at home, and the gold of the ^country is sent across the ocean to pay for it. Hence the drain on the gold reserve in the treasury. It is only a roundabout way of supplying the treasury deficiency. What we want is a tariff which will protect our industries, employ our labor, produce what we consume and keep our gold at home. Retiring the greenbacks will help nothing.

0. O. STAI.KY, Washington correspondent of the Louisville CourierJournal, telegraphs that paper as follows:

If the Republicans carry as many States in 1890 as they carried in 1894 and 1895, they will have as large a majority in the Senate in proportion to numbers as they now have in the House of Representatives. On the 4th of March, 1897, there would only be twenty Democrats in the Senate out of ninety, and it would take the Democrats eight years of successive triumph to again regain the ascendancy. This is a beautiful prospect for an old Democrat to contemplate.

THK Republican National Convention will be held June 16, at St. Louis. This action was taken Tuesday by the national committee in session at Washington. Chicago was not in the fight to any great extent, the vote showing that she stood fourth in the preference of the committeemen. They had not forgotten the outrages and unfair treatment accorded to all the Presidential candidates in 1S88 in the interest of Judge Gresham. Everybody in Indiana will be satisfied with St. Louis.

DR. SAMPSON POPE, who was the Democratic anti-Tillman candidate for Governor of South Carolina at the present election, has transferred himself to the Republican party, because, as he says, "that party is the party of protection, not only of "manufactures and labor, but also of the rights of the of the citizens under the Constitution of the United States." A good many of our Southern Democrats are doing the same thing for the same reason.

IF Congress cannot atits session cure all the ills now oppressing the peeple, let it cure at many as possible, and be quick about it.

HON. JOHN J. INGALI.S, the brilliant ex-Senator of Kansas, favors General Harrison for President. In an interview last Saturday at Indianapolis he said: "If General Harrison should be nominated he will receive strong support in the West. The sentiment out there in the last few months has swung around wonderfully for him. The people recognize in him a man who is conservative, and, withal, a brilliant and brainy mau, who has scarcely a peer in the country. I regard Mr. Harrison as a man who has had a wonderful growth since he passed his fiftieth year. Since leaving the Senate he has developed as few men ever do at that age. His intellectual power is something grand, and he has the faculty to meet difficult and abstruse questions in a way that reassures people. I regard him as the strongest man in the party."

THE deficit is constantly increasing. For the first ten days of December it amounts to $2,443,00S, for the fiscal year to $18,317,935, and for the Cleveland administration $130,179,436. The statement is made that another bond issue is altogether probable for the reason that Mr. Cleveland will refuse to sign any bill that will increase the revenue.

M'KINLEV HILL.

Wheat is looking bad at this place. Mrs. Mollie Hughes is on the sick list.

Mrs. Hall sold a horse last week for $265. Literary was fine last Wednesday night.

Oxapurt Cornell visited friends here Sunday." Duck Stall is often seen at Binford's, near Garfield.

Frank Dunbar and wife spent Sunat this place. Washington Coyner and wife visited here this week.

Wm. Riley has been hauling clover hay to town. Clover is good sale.

OFFIKL.

Andrew Gillis is suffering with the gripJas. Weir, jr., is a heavy loser from hog cholera.

Died, o»» December 1, Fred, the pet red bird of the Gillis family. Mrs. Frank Jamison is suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism.

Grant Miller and family visited home folks on Black Creek last week. Miss Josie Miller, of Indianapolis, spent last week with home folks.

Harley Swindler and George Wert are doing a thriving business with their saw mill.

Mr. Ash, of the far West, surprised the family of Lem McMullen with a visit last week.

The members of the music class were photographed by Willis and the pictures are superb.

Miss Annie Gohman and brother Henry are visiting their grandparents near Morgan town.

Wm. and Henry Weir furnished the music for asocial hop at Mr. Arinentrout's last Friday night.

Frank McCormick bade good-bye to Number Thirty-five last week and slid clear down into the pocket.

Dick Steele and Grant Miller dug a well for J. C. Canine and found abundance of water at a depth of nineteen feet.

Prof. Kennedy finished his term of instruction in music here and has left for Bowers' Station where he has a class.

We were pleased to welcome T. Trotter and W. H. Archibald, of the city, as visitors to our Sunday school on last Sunday evening.

J. C. Canine has purchased John Galey's interest in their farm here, and Mr. Canine will build a neat cottage on the same. He will be ready to begin country life in earnest next Spring.

A basket supper will be given at Union chapel next Saturday night. Everybody is invited to be present as the proceeds are to be used in buying presents for the Sunday school Christmas tree.

git SWAMP COLLEGE.

Jacob Shrader's wife is very sick. Uncle John Evans is very low with heart trouble.

John Goff and Fred Wilson are still hunting coons. James Glover and family visited Eli Grimes on Wednesday.

George Scott, of Putnam county, has been buying turkeys here. Andrew W. Shrader had 9 acres of corn that made 400 bushels.

Ad Hester and wife spent Sunday at Russellville with James Ulover. Ad Hester and Eli Grimes went hunting Tuesday and got 19 rabbits. \V. Doyle and wife spent Sunday in Putnam county, at Joseph Allen's.

Frank Demoret, of New Market, is the guest of G. E. Grimes and wife. T. II. Galev and wife,'visited at Clay McKee's, in Putnam county, Saturday.

John Gott sold a load of hay to Ross May at Russellville, Friday, for $11 per ton.

Manford Carrington and Alma Goff were happily united in marriage Sunday.

Aunt Martha Grimes is visiting her son, Abe Grimes, near Brown's Valley, this week.

The Brown's Valley boys, 40 Jstrong, caine here Thanksgiving day and killed 600 rabbits.

Ike Hester has a watermelon weighing 65 pounds that he is going tociit Christmas day.

M. L. Doyle bought of Matthe'v Agnew three hogs for his meat lh-it weighed 350 pounds.

The rabbit hunters of Brown's V:.lley had their annual oyster festival un Saturday evening, Nov. 30.

Samuel Galey and wife are visiting Wm. Galey, who is quite siclc with pneumonia, at Ladogo this week.

Adam Hester lost three hogs from cholera this week and fears he will lose all of them with this disease.

ADVENT OF

THEBIOSTORE

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Holiday Merchandise

Popular Advantagesof aCosmopolitan Business

High intelligence guides the touch of this store on the goods of all the world. Thus the goods are selected with expert skill and are bought at the best prices and upon the best terms. The rarest and most beautiful, the most familiar and common place goods are all treated as merchandise. Both are sold at the lowest possible prices.

These methods are very important at the Christmas holiday time. They dissolve the glamour with which some merchants would impose upon your credulity while attempting to sell the goods of foreign lands. Buying here you get the goods of the old world by the methods of the new. Oriental Fancy Goods and Textiles are merchandise at fair prices, not curios at fancy prices. The romance is dispelled, but with it goes the misrepresentation that deceives your judgment and despoils your pocket.

Top-lofty assumption by many dealers of the exclusive varity of certain goods often costs the retail buyer heavily. Our methods put all that in the same limbo as the Oriental imposition. Sentiment, fancy, imagination surround the giving of gifts at the holidays. They are often made the means of imposture. Is it not a comfort to indulge them all without the risk of being swindled? And the chance to do that is one of our Christmas gifts to the public. A few of the many handsome and useful articles we offer as remembrance tokens:

DRESS GOODS, SILKS, WRAPPER MATERIALS, SKIRT PATTERNS, CLOTH JACKETS, MUFFS,' FUR CAPES, SHAWLS, MITTENS, SILK MITTS,

KID GLOVES, HANDKERCHIEFS, FANS, SCARFS, MUFFLERS, UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY, CORSETS, MEN'S TIES,

FASCINATORS, MACKINTOSHES, UMBRELLAS, MUSLIN UNDERWEAR, COLLARS AND CUFFS, MEN'S GLOVES, WHITE SHIRTS, COMFORTS,

NIGHT SHIRTS, BABY BOOTIES, BOYS' WAISTS, BABY CLOAKS, PORTIERS, BABY HOODS,

BED SPREADS, BLANKETS, LACE CURTAINS, COUCH COVERS, BED SETS, TABLE LINENS, TOWELS, NAPKINS, TIDIES, PIN CUSHIONS,

STAMPED LINEN, THROWS, SCREENS, Sofa Pillows, Shopping Bags, Perfumes

Also hundreds of other useful and ornamental articles, specially provided for gift giving. SPECIAL—We offer 250 silver plated cups, gilt lined, beautifully engraved, at 25 cents each, actual value 50 cents. Attention to Sabbath and Public School teachers is called to this item. A lasting present for a small sum.

Crawfordsville, Ind. 127-129 East Main Street.

S an a or re ad as call promptly for your marked copy.

LOUIS BISCHOF